from Barbarossa’s fleet to continue alone to the Ottoman capital. This would be one of the last naval campaigns of Barbarossa, who died 2 years later in Constantinople in 1546. Aftermath Toulon would again be used as a safe harbour for several months by Turgut Reis from August 1546, when he was pursued by the fleet of Genoese admiral Andrea Doria. Notes References Roger Crowley, Empire of the sea, 2008 Faber & Faber Yann Bouvier, « Récits de voyage et représentation de l'espace. La Méditerranée de Jérôme Maurand, un espace vécu », Mémoire de Master, Dir. par Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Université de Nice, 2007, 292 p. Yann Bouvier, « Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1498?-1578) - De la Garde-Adhémar au siège de Nice, le parcours d'un Ambassadeur de François Ier », Recherches Régionales, Nice, Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes, n°188, Octobre-décembre 2007, 28 pp. Naval history of the Ottoman Empire Military history of France Toulon Islam in France 1540s in France 1543 in France 1544 in France 1543 in the Ottoman Empire 1544 in the Ottoman Empire Italian Wars